The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-06-19
BEER ONE CENT MORE A PINT
COMBINE IN TWO WARDS TO RAISE THE
QUOTATION ron GROWLERS.

ence In . Year IN Uhe WARD.
When Eleventh warders want pint of
beer now they have to pay eight cents for t.
whereas heretofore the price has been seven
cents. BY next week this rule will apply to the
Seventeenth ward also, and the eight-cents-a-
pint infection is likely to spread until 1t has
embraced the entire city, and the additional
cent to the pint will foot up to q formidable
number OF thousands OF dollars q month
It was at q meeting held by the Eleventh
Ward Liquor Dealers, League at 29l East
solved to hang the eight-cent banner on the
outer wall 1t has always been the custom to
increase the cost Of pint Of beer during tho
summer by one cont. This was to cover the
cost OF the Ice necessary to keep the beer COOL
an expense which 10 not fclt in winter, The
trouble was, however. that all the dealers
would not come mp on the price, prSierring to
cut into their neighbors' business and take
their customers away from them rather than
make the additional profit from the one cent
increase. There was no understanding among
the dealers on the subject. When one dealer
having q pretty good run OF "growler" GUS
tom found his ice bills were eating into his
profits he jumped up the price from seven
cents to eight cents, and bis example generally
spread about the block where his saloon was
and so to other blocks until 1t met still other
eight-cent areas spreading from other centres
But there was always to be found the obstinate
seven center scattered here and there, and he
The Eleventh ward dealers are organized for
shs9 %ads sRa ss
seven GENTS. a-pint man IN among the rest: 30
h all esSt ssats that hs
notes. There are about s5o beer dealers IN
formed the league chiefly With the view, to
being IN an ss or to SsyS th hs
afiiction thus uniting then they could probe
on the seven-cent evil
On Friday number e rspresenta,tye, dealers .s
te wstS E
e een s&a To- Fdsy ssrnocn next The
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eight cents pint on the cost Of beer. there
s S and
~ upon them: There arc about 900 dealers IL
hs sss s he
substantial front Of 1.22O for e starter. The
ready combined are expected to. do so at an
ess dy and 4 S Ss the
The. retail beer dealers Of the Eleventh ward
and OF quarters Of the city wherein live q SINH.
reason. that L is ABOUT Impossible for them to
live and sell their beer at cents pint. Al
most thsiE entire business Is n A GROWER
PIC. who rssSrd i as senseiess eItrsyssanee
70 buy beer ~ cents gless Eheno they can
Sgf 81 ess pn Hss 1e1
1hnE . .s.sss deal Of SssE md n tsM rssaFd
thss hSySTcFs ss s%op the i
pers. and whom the head OF the family comes
home after bard days work the evening pint
a luxury which even the most temperate think
they can hardly do without. The e99nsse eu
s grow i 'fH ied Curing The afternoon and
evening there Is constant s stream 81 TN pals
sqd sse fss arg
eases Change !ishtly eutched in sRs,E hands
and the pitcher up to the top Of the high
II an exact pint Of beer were given, as is the
good profit at seven cents. But as q matter OF
purchaser does not get his four glasses filed
out Of his pint he feels that he has been rather
ysd u maHe nearly n
the pint OF commerce actually moro than fills
four glasses. the surplus over tho fourth glass
'.'growier trade finds himself Obliged to sell
for seven or eight cents g., what the dealer who
It is reckoned that in q kee of beer there are
twenty-six such pints as are usually sold for
pints: the " growler" pint OF commerce. This
be the bsss only vs
sells BY the pint at an actual loss his sole hope
ofproft being In the amount he may be able to
kee II he sells it ali OF BY the pint. and this
Se S sDes a. Oq 9sa hs n no e1
may get out Of Z II selling By the glass. and
profit to bars Where. they fire it out over
the counters In the high collared glass is to the
small merchant in the vast growle5 belts in the
faction. What profit there is in tho drinking
places In these quarters must come from the
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quarters barely exc out an existence for their
hoss hsfs g to
prtetIoErship o. such resort gives man In the
ne Tc the Consumers of the beer themselves the
increase OF the price by one Gent the pint does
not apparently make any difference. They all
seem ABOUT as ready TO pay eight cents as
seven. or the MONDAY stream Of growler car
riers who were coming ont OF an Eleventh ward
beer shop yesterday. several who were, spoken
to about the increase said 1t was all tho same
to them.
We'd Just as soon pay eight cents as seven
said one; the difference OF one cent does not
amount to much. All that made anybody kick
is because one place would sell for eight cents.
another around the corner would sell Tor seven.
OF course you would want to go to the cheapest
place, and you would not think II fair thing
II your dealer made you pay eight cents for the
same thing that another dealer would only ask
seven for II eight cents is the price all right
You Just want to know what the, IriSe 10; and
you want to get good measure. ] don't believe
we get any better measure though. and guess
not quite as good since they aA went into the
eighteen combine. But youiknow o man has
got to have beer-it's one OF the necessities.
There Ii bread and drink both In beor."
The amount OF beer which IL drunk In the
quarters OF the city where people In very hum
Bile circumstances live Is something that is not
evening outpour OF GROWERS. The round OF
tho brewers wagon Is as fixed and essential n
feature OF life as the round OF the bakers cart.
Estimate the average sales OF the beer shops
at thirty Kegs week each. In the Seventeenth
ward there are 900 OF such shops. thus making
the Seventeenth warders consume the sub
Rtantial amount of q, 900 kegs q week. Allow
ing twenty five growler pints to keg OF beer.